But I never get the email. Further, using cron.daily as a base (because it does my spam updatting), none of the scripts in /etc/cron.daily seem to run. I have a script spam_check.sh that removes all spam from user's mailboxes in a special folder called Spam that is older than 3 days. If I run this script manually, it works fine. Running the run-parts on /etc/cron.daily works fine, but the spam files are not deleted and I never get an email.

Can you send mail using 'mail' commandline utility?
Have you tried to put some talkative job directly inside crontab?
Is there anything cron-related in logs (try grep cron /var/log/ -r | less)?_________________Microsoft is not the answer, Microsoft is the question, the answer is no.

do you have ssmtp installed and configured? i'd also run "find / | grep dead.letter" to see if the mails are still stored somewhere on the fs (might be /home/user, might be /var/spool, it's been a while).

i'd also try dropping the variables from your crontab, but i use dcron, so i'm not sure if you really need them. (ssmtp does the MAILTO, and the rest should be automatic)

what are the permissions on the /etc/cron.daily/scripts you added? note: your cron.daily is commented out in your sample.

do you have ssmtp installed and configured? i'd also run "find / | grep dead.letter" to see if the mails are still stored somewhere on the fs (might be /home/user, might be /var/spool, it's been a while).

i'd also try dropping the variables from your crontab, but i use dcron, so i'm not sure if you really need them. (ssmtp does the MAILTO, and the rest should be automatic)

what are the permissions on the /etc/cron.daily/scripts you added? note: your cron.daily is commented out in your sample.

cheers

Thanks for your suggestions and help.

ssmtp was not installed/configured, I believe because when I set this server up, ssmtp & postfix blocked each other. When I install ssmtp and run etc-config, it wants to set my MTA to be ssmtp and not postfix--I don't want this to happen as everything is working fine with Postfix for my users. Should I have both ssmtp & postfix installed?

"find / | grep dead.letter" returns nothing

I commented out the extra variables in crontab, leaving only MAILTO so that I can continue testing. We'll see after the cron.daily scripts run if that had any effect.